He focuses on M&A, capital markets, joint ventures, governance, cross-border financings
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) has announced that Deepak Gill, a former associate, has returned as a partner in Vancouver on May 2, while senior associate Joshua Favel joined the Toronto office from the Ottawa office on April 1.
“We are thrilled to welcome Deepak back to BLG,” said Prema Thiele, BLG’s national leader for corporate and capital markets (CCM), in a news release.
In the news release, BLG said Gill will work closely with the firm’s corporate, capital markets, M&A, energy, and regulatory teams.
Gill has over 20 years of experience in corporate, securities, and capital markets law. He focuses on M&A, capital markets transactions, joint ventures, governance, regulatory compliance, and cross-border financings. His experience includes initial public offerings and domestic and international transactions alike.
He has assisted public and private companies across North and South America. He has also advised boards, executives, and global investors on complex transactions, strategic corporate development initiatives, and cross-border regulatory landscapes, and clients in the mining, natural resources, renewables, power, technology, telecom, and investment banking sectors.
Gill has worked with companies at all stages of growth, including emerging ventures, multinational enterprises, senior government levels, and Crown corporations in connection with complex contract and resource management matters.
“His deep industry knowledge, market experience and cross-border expertise will be invaluable to our clients across sectors and his return further strengthens our Vancouver and national CCM and Mining practices,” Thiele said in the news release.
Gill joined the BC bar in 2006. He earned his LLB and bachelor’s degrees from the University of British Columbia in 2004 and 2001, respectively.
He is a member of the Arbitration Advisory Group of the Attorney General of British Columbia, the Institute of Corporate Directors, the Law Society of British Columbia, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law.
In the Toronto office, Favel will continue to practise in the area of Indigenous law within the CCM group.
He is a corporate and commercial lawyer who assists Indigenous communities and their businesses with different legal matters and industry clients with various commercial projects, especially those involving Indigenous interests. His experience also covers economic development matters, corporate transactions, corporate governance, and the negotiation of commercial agreements.
Favel joined BLG last September. Before that, he focused on corporate and commercial law as an associate at a national firm in Toronto and a boutique Indigenous law firm. He also taught as an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law.
He received admission to the Ontario bar in 2020. He received his JD from the University of Toronto and his LLM from the University of Cambridge. He is a member of Poundmaker Cree Nation, the Law Society of Ontario’s Indigenous Advisory Group, and the Indigenous Bar Association.
